Month: January 2013

I’m sure that the phrase “DITA tease” is more commonly associated with the other famous DITA out there, but the people who make the DITAToo CMS have released what they promise is a final teaser ahead of an upcoming survey on how people convert legacy content to DITA. When asked what tools people are usingRead More

4% …and growing. About half-a-year ago Mekon colleague Rachel Johnson asked me whether I knew what percentage of technical writing jobs out there are DITA-related. I said I didn’t know, and became intrigued with finding the answer to that question. While I have a lengthy list of companies using DITA, I wondered what percentage thatRead More

Update February 7 2013: A recording of all of the webinars in this series are now available: Session 1: Users Become Learners Webinar recording Slidedeck only Session 2: Empowering User/Learners Through Cognitive Development Webinar recording Slidedeck only Session 3: Integrated Learning: Building Customer Loyalty Webinar recording Slidedeck only If you get an error message whenRead More

At the end of this month Jacquie Samuels of Writing Wise will be giving a free webinar presentation (sponsored by Stilo) that is aimed at those people who are looking at converting their content over to DITA. Am guessing you can get a sneak-peak at what she will be talking about at this nice articleRead More

For DITA XML, does “one size fit all”? The answer is: “yes”. When doing my recent revamp of the Companies using DITA listing, the information available on LinkedIn not only included the industry category that a company belonged to, but all the size of the company in terms of the number of people it employed.Read More

One of the more eye-opening aspects of the first “So Who’s Using DITA?” article I posted here a year ago was the variety of firms that had adopted DITA in some part of their documentation process. While those results were dominated by the number of software firms using it, what I found most interesting wasRead More

It is one thing to produce graphs of the countries where DITA is being used, another thing entirely to look at a map and realize that you happen to live in a city where there are lots of other people are producing DITA-based content. When I originally did my survey of DITA worldwide usage aRead More

Update: My thanks to Wim Hooghwinkel of Information Energy who sent me a list of a several firms in The Nederlands that are using DITA, which single-handedly pushed the numbers of firms for that country up a full percentage point. Also to my Mekon colleague Noz Urbina who pointed out a problem with the numbersRead More

What originally started out as a modest project just over a year ago to find out which companies are using DITA for their technical documentation has evolved over the past year to become the most comprehensive listing of all-known firms that are implementing DITA. If you are using DITA XML, know you are far fromRead More